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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
I am a carnivore. I am an obligate carnivore. I am a human being, a highly evolved superpredator that's spent the past 5.-odd million years evolving to get up here.
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I am as evolved as you are and I am a vegan. Take from that what you will.
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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
A further question: if livestock production is such a huge problem, why did not the enormous herds of ruminants (bison, deer, antelope, etc) roaming the pre-Columbian Americas not cause this problem? Likewise the equally impressive herds of large animals which inhabited Africa until the 1890s?
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There are so many reasons!
1. The herds you speak of would roam after grazing, and all their shit would be dispersed over a wide area, giving the ecosystem a chance to break it down.
2. They were eating the grass which they evolved to digest, not corn which leads to digestive problems and eventually resistant strains of bacteria like the e.coli.
3. Call me lazy but I'm not even going to bother checking whether the herds you mention were anywhere near as big as the factory farm populations used to feed the earth's humans.
4. The herds you mention (and again maybe I'm lazy on the fact checking) never developed the technology or opposable thumbs needed to clear cut swaths of rainforest in order to obtain grazing land.